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A17300 For God, and the King. The summe of two sermons preached on the fifth of November last in St. Matthewes Friday-streete. 1636. / By Henry Burton, minister of Gods word there and then. Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1636 (1636) STC 4142; ESTC S106958 113,156 176

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